Since there's no room to build more roads, we've tried something else: prioritize our near and long-term efforts to move more people, more efficiently. Together with our partners, King County Metro, we're making changes, big and small, prioritizing transit to help improve the system, adding up to some big results.

Since 2008, we improved the safety and efficiency of city transit thru street and sidewalk improvements, funded by the voter approved Levy to Move Seattle and the Bridging the Gap Levy before it, and King County Metro.

From 2000 to 2016, we saw big changes in travel to downtown Seattle - modes like transit, walking, biking, and rideshare jumped from 50% to 70% of trips. Most of this growth is thanks to transit, which increased from 29% to 47% of trips. But that's not all. During this same time, drive-alone trips decreased from 50% to 30%. Now that's success!

Ridership on Regional Partnership routes (those routes with service funded in partnership between Seattle and another jurisdiction thanks for STBD) increased 12%, adding more than 5,000 weekday riders.

The City of Seattle funded approximately 56% more service hours on the RapidRide C and D Lines and has seen a 40% and 28% ridership increase, respectively.

The RapidRide E Line gained 13% more weekday rides while the City funded 11% more service.

Our Youth ORCA Program distributes ORCA cards to high school and middle school students enrolled in Seattle Public Schools whose households are income-eligible. For the 2016-17 school year, the Youth ORCA Program distributed cards to 2,538 high school students and 142 middle school students, for a total of 2,680 cards.

The ORCA LIFT Program provides up to a 50% discount on fares for income-qualified riders.

28,816 Seattle residents (19% of eligible residents) enrolled in the ORCA LIFT program - up 11%.

Seattle residents account for 59% of King County's 49,058 ORCA LIFT registrations, and Seattle's share continues to increase at a faster rate than the rest of King County.